"calling it as soft fork seems disengenuous"
You can do better than this
"Hard fork" and "soft fork" are well-defined technical terms. Either can cause a chain split
This was explained thousands of times to the RDTS/Knotsi crowd in recent months, on Twitter and in their Telegram group chat. But they were told by Liar
@Luke Dashjr that "hard" and "soft" mean "split" and "no split"
If you want to talk about controversy, and consensus, and chain splits, please do